Frank Acland, author of the E Cat World site has made some interesting points regarding Dr Andrea Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer device and how it efficacy could help to boost an ailing US economy should all go off without a hitch at next month’s much-anticipated launch of Rossi’s partnered- 1MW power plant. To read the article, please visit Frank’s site.
Sep 27 2011
September 28th, 2011 6:36 am
The scale of the transition to LENR from other less efficient sources of energy is vast.
For instance, a typical coal fired power plant of 500 MWe capacity (of which there are over 600 in the US alone) operating at 40% efficiency would require about 1,250 of Rossi’s 1 MWth devices (each comprised of 125 individual e-cats best I can tell). And that’s only if the device could heat water to close to 600C.
Far from being an argument why it is impractical to replace coal with LENR, it is instead an example of the scale of the transition. If it takes over one thousand 1 megawatt E-Cats to power a typical coal-fired power plant, then so be it. The difference in efficiency between coal and LENR is stark. Over one thousand 2 by 2 by 1 meter boxes, compared to continuously purchasing, transporting, and consuming the tremendous amount of coal to power a “typical 500 MWe capacity” coal-fired power plant – it isn’t even close.
Can you imagine the economic stimulus of building over one thousand Rossi 1 megawatt E-Cats for each of the 600 US coal-fired power plants? Yeah, it would immediately put coal miners out of work, but would be off-set big time by those employed to manufacture and install (and maintain) those LENR generators.